Method of making strips for weaving and the like.



L. S. & M. SAMUEL.

METHOD OF MAKING STRIPS FOR WEAVING AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1913.

Patented July 28, 19m

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L. S. & M. SAMUEL.

METHOD OF MAKING STRIPS FOR wmvme AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1913. 1,1 Q5,3()9 Patented July 28, 191-4..

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UNITED srnrns earn NT ornron LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL AND MOSES SAMUEL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF lvLAKIN G STRIPS FOB WEAVING AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 16, 1913. Serial N0. 779,355.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LnoPoLD S. SAMUEL and Moses SAMUEL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Strips for Weaving and the like, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of making strips, which strips can be ut1l1zed for weaving or other purposes, particularly 1n handlcraft work, the main object, however, being to provide strips for making rugs or rag carpets.

The lnvention also provldes for the ut1l1 zation of waste material, and allows of an economy which is not present in the old method of making carpet rags or. strips for weaving.

It has been customary to cut material into strips, and then by a judicious selection of these strips, or picking them up haphazard,

they have beeen fastened together end to end, this fastening being usually by sewingby hand, and the strips or rags so asalong the warp has caused a parting of the" strips, due to their insecure fastening. Where this work is done commercially the old method has also been found to be not as economical as possible and the assembling of the colors on the material, when carelessly done, has very often led to poor groupings of colors or the like, and not as good a re sult is obtained in the woven object, such as a rug or carpet. g I 7 Our invention provides for the utilization of material of any kind that is adapted for this purpose, and of any grade or color, the pieces of material being arranged edge to edge, either by a butt or lap seam, and

then secured in this relation so that the pieces form a sheet. This sheet is then cutinto strips, and these cuts being most of them across the seams of the joined pieces, have insured strips in which the juncture of the pieces is assured from edge toedge of the'strip, since the cut is made through. the seam, and the seam being continuous the junctures of the pieces that form the strip are continuous.

Patented July 28, 1914.

The invention;furtherprovides in forming the sheet as above described, and in addition theretofsecuring material, usually,

of a contrastingcolor, either in the way of waste,oriyarnfand sometimes in tape-like bands or pieces, over the seams or junctures of the pieces whereby these bands or coverlngs are also cut, andwhen made of contrasting colors to the pieces, form arelief for the colors and insure the hiding of the seam and at the same time the insertion. of vivid or contrasting colors, or, if desired, a more subdued color.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure'l is a diagrammatic view showing pieces of material arranged edge to edge to form a sheet andillustrating by dotted lines the, strips that would be cut from the sheet. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the strips. Fig. 3 is a section through a seam between two pieces, andFig. 4:. is a face view of another form of seam that can be employed. Fig. 51s a diagrammatic view showing a part of a sheet made up of ad oining pleces with band-like, orv tape-like material over I the'j'uncture of the pieces. Fig. 6 is a section onan enlarged scale through one of the seams in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a face view of a fragmentshowing yarn or cotton waste or similar fibrous material arranged on a v seam, and Fig. 8 is a section through Fig. 7.

The embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1 shows pieces 10 of'any suitable material, such as cloth, the pieces of material being attached at their edges 11 either by a suitable adhesive or by sewing'so that the assembled pieces form a sheet. The seams at the edges 11 can either be arranged with regularity on the sheet, or they can be placed as illustrated, being placed haphazard according to the shape of the pieces, and very often in this kind of work, scrap or waste material is utilized and the seams are at various angles on account of the different shapes of the pieces. The seams at the edges 11 can be made in different ways, and in Fig. 3 we illustrate a section with two of the sheets 10 and the overlapping edges 13, and suitable stitching 14: holds the pieces together. \Ve prefer to make these stitches by machine, whereby a continuous line of stitching is provided, this continuous line of Stitching insuring the sewing or stitch ing of the adjoining ends of the pieces comprising the strip from edge to edge.

In Fig. A we show a cross stitch 15 which sews on both sides of the juncture 16 of the pieces. The sheet is then out along the lines 17 to form the strips, one of these strips 18- being illustrated in Fig. 2,the seams 19 being sewed from side to side of the strip, since these seams are continuous in the sheet and of course are continuous in the strip.

The pieces 10 can be of any suitable material or colors or grades, and can either be arranged at haphazard, or they can be arranged so as to make strips in which the colors or materials would follow in predetermined succession. The promiscuous arrangement of pieces would be used when the design of the article to be woven was mixed, but the regular arrangement of colors or material would be employed when a design being woven would depend on the succession of colors in the strip.

It will be evident that this method of making the strips is economical, and it also insures the succession of colors or materials in the strip when it is desired, and further provides for a positive joining of the ends of the pieces going to make up the strip from one edge of the strip to the other, this being necessary to insure the holding together of the pieces when the article is being woven and the strain or tension on the strip is strong enough to tend to part the seam between the pieces that go to make up the strip.

To make a better joint and also, in some cases, to make a relief in the color, we aiiix coverings, or in some cases, tape-like bands, to the seams. One instance where this is desirable is in the case of a ru known as a hit and miss rug where the colors are mixed and certain vivid or contrasting colors can be utilized in the tape-like band or covering pieces to insure, at certain intervals, or at uncertain intervals, the placing of these colors. Such a structure is shown in Fig. 5 in which the pieces 10 are joined by stitching 20, this stitching also passing through tapelike bands 21. A section of one of the seams is shown in Fig. 6, this section showing how the overlapping ends of the pieces 10 and the tape-like band 21 are held together by the stitch 20. It will be evident, however, that other means of fastening the pieces and the band together may be employed.

In Fig. 7 we show an elevation of a fragment of a sheet in which the pieces 10 are held together by the stitches 22, which stitches also pass through and hold together the material 23. This material is of a fibrous nature and can be of mixed colors or of a neutral color, the fibrous material being of different kinds, such as silk waste, yarn waste, in fact any of the numerous fibrous or bunched material that is adapted for this purpose.

The fastening of the elements together is well illustrated in section in Fig. 8, the overlapping edges and the material 23 being shown as held by one line of stitching, but difierent means of fastening these elements can be used. The tape-like bands or pieces which are used on the junctures of the pieces can be made up of separate pieces of material,or can be also made of promiscuously arranged strips or remnants of material, and they can be arranged so as to give contrasting colors or used to modify the colors, if desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is j j 4 1. A method of making strips for weaving and the like consisting in the provision of pieces of material, fastening said pieces edge toedge by continuous seams to form a sheet and then cutting the sheet across said seams to form the strips. 7

2. A method of making strips for weaving and the like consisting in the provision of pieces of material, sewing said pieces by continuous stitches along their edges to form a sheet and then cutting the sheet into strips, the cuts being arranged so that they cross the seams between the pieces.

3. A method of making strips for weaving and the like consisting in the provision of piecesof material, securing said pieces by their edges to form a sheet, securing tapelike pieces over the seams of the adjoining pieces, and then cutting said sheet into strips.

4. A method of making strips for weaving and the like consisting in the provision of pieces of material fastened edge to edge to form a sheet, laying tape-like pieces over the adjoining edges of the pieces that form the sheet, sewing through the tape-like pieces and through the adjoining edges of the pieces that form the sheet to secure them together, and then cutting the sheet so formed into strips. 7

5. A method of making strips for weaving and the like which consists in the provision of pieces of material placed sideby side, placing fibrous material at the junc- We have hereunto set our hands, this 14th tures of the pieces of material, then sewing day of July, 1913.

through the fibrous material and the ad- LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL.

joining edges of the pieces to secure them MOSES SAMUEL. together, and then cutting the sheet so Witnesses: formed into strips. WM. H. CAMFIELD, In testimony that we claim the foregoing, M. A. JOHNSON.

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